Thematicize
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To make into or explore as a theme.
"As opposed to this, politicology should thematicize practical life as a whole, namely, that part of life in which people joint not as a private political being in a private, separate political community, but as human beings in a community in which they reproduce a separate form of their historical existence."
- 2 To insert a thematic vowel.
"If, on the other hand, /T/ stands under the N or NP marked as GOAL/TARGET/VICTIM, the transduction protocol will thematicize the DO noun, in our case Caesar, and the rest of the lexo-tactics, independently learned and remembered by the speakers, will adjust the verb as Aux + Tense + V + Past Participle and the original Agent/Subject of the race will show up as by + N in sentence final position."
- 3 To insert a thematic vowel.; To change from an athematic type into a thematic one Indo-European-studies
"As late PIE evolved and split into dialects, many of the old root nouns and consonant-stems were thematicized."
Synonyms
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More examples"As opposed to this, politicology should thematicize practical life as a whole, namely, that part of life in which people joint not as a private political being in a private, separate political community, but as human beings in a community in which they reproduce a separate form of their historical existence."
Etymology
From thematic + -ize.
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